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CRYSTALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES

KYANITE - Disthene

Chemical Composition: Al2SiO5

Crystal System: Triclinic Hardness: 5.5 - 7

Habit: Crystals usually of flat, bladed habit; also as radiating bladed aggregates

Colour: Blue to white, but may be grey or green.
Crystals are often unevenly coloured, the darkest tints being in the centre.
Transparent to translucent, with a pearly covering.

KEYWORDS: SWORD OF TRUTH

Kyanite occurs typically in pegmatites and quartz veins associated with schists.
The name kyanite comes from the Greek word kyanos, meaning ‘blue’.
A kyanite blade has a very focused swift action: it holds the keys to knowledge, the blue ray of communication.
Kyanite works on the following body parts: thyroid and parathyroid; upper lungs; jaw; arms: base of the skull; and body weight.
Kyanite integrates the bodies’ energies into the head and so can, with conscious attunement, align all the chakras.
Kyanite is the seeker of truth and will combat fear of speaking the truth. You can tell if someone has problems expressing themselves:
they tend to hold their head down with the chin on the chest.
This shows the person is unprotected in the throat chakra.
Such people have to clear their throat frequently, because metaphysically they are being choked by the truths they have swallowed.
Their voice may be dull or weak, even monotonous in tone.

They may try to communicate in group discussions but, because they have problems expressing themselves, very often they go unheard.
Anger and frustration can build up for them, causing throat and ear infections.
Kyanite reduces fevers and calms hot conditions where there is too much heat in the body.
It also eases stiff necks and stiff-necked attitudes, heals ear and throat infections and is a natural pain reliever.
Kyanite can aid weight loss by encouraging communication, thereby releasing stored words and unwanted body weight.
It has been used to bring down high blood pressure; also in the sickroom and for those terminally ill.

Kyanite contains the royal colour of integrity and is uplifting to the soul as it searches for its maturity.
It will bring guidance and faith, giving great encouragement to break loose from the chains of ignorance, desire and hatred.
It will aid you in your struggle towards the light of your soul and your soul purpose.
Kyanite works with Archangel Michael and his sword of truth; it is more powerful than Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur.
Use it to cut away the wrong mental, emotional and spiritual attitudes that have held you captive.
It is a double-edged sword, so you can cut away duality and dualistic concepts that have blinded you to the truth.
Use it wisely; once you have picked it up, it is very hard to put down until you have ended not only your own suffering (ignorance)
but also the suffering of all sentient beings.

Affirmation: I use the sword of truth to cut away all illusion that has blocked my spiritual growth.

LABRADORITE - Feldspar

Chemical Composition: Ca(50-70%) Na(50-30%) (Al, Si)AlSi2Q8,

Crystal System: Triclinic Hardness: 6 - 6.5

Habit: Includes blocky crystals that rarely form free of the host rock and therefore do not usually show their full crystal forms.
In sliced sections of rock, the labradorite appears as blocky chunks with a predominance of near right-angled corners; also massive, granular

Colour: Grey to smoky black, which can produce a colourful play of light across cleavage planes and in sliced sections, called labradorescence.

The usually intense colours range from the typical blues and violets through greens, yellows and oranges

KEYWORD: ENCHANTMENT

Labradorite is truly fascinatingly beautiful mineral.
It is a mineral whose charm is not fully noticed and may be overlooked if not viewed from the proper position;
generally a drab-looking mineral with no special virtue until the colourful schiller is observed glowing on the surface.
Labradorite can produce a colourful play of light across cleavage planes and in sliced sections, called labradorescence.

The usually intense colours range from the typical blues and violets through greens, yellows and oranges.
The colour display is from lamellar intergrowths inside the crystal. These intergrowths result from compatible chemistries at
high temperatures becoming incompatible at lower temperatures and thus a separating and lay in of these two phases.
A ray of light entering a layer and being refracted back and forth by deeper layers causes the resulting colour effect.
This refracted ray is slowed by the extra travel through the layers and mixes with other rays to produce a light ray coming
out that have a different wavelength than when it went in. The wavelength could correspond to the wavelength of
a particular colour, such as blue.
The labradorescence is truly a one of a kind mineralogical and metaphysical encounter and must be observed in person in order
to truly appreciate its beauty.

Notable occurrences include Labrador (from where it derives its name), in Canada, and the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Labradorite is metaphysically known as the ‘bringer of light’, the illumination on the path.
It works by dispelling darkness.
Enchanting labradorite is connected to mystery: it points to magic and esoteric knowledge via its labradorescence or luminescence.
It contains the mesmerizing dark moon energies of dreaming, of altered states of reality. Labradorite asks you “where do
you go when you sleep?” - then it shows you - where you go - when you are not you.
It facilitates initiation into deep hidden sacred knowledge and past life encounters.

It is a gateway to other worlds and dimensions.
Labradorite is a shape-shifter, it plays with the light, and it moves it and bends it and plays with illusion.
It skilfully removes the ‘hooks and ensnarements’ of other people’s mental projections, allowing one to completely clean the
auric shell of other people’s emotional debris. It removes negativity and depression that have been caused by disappointments in life.
It teaches you to look beyond the visible world, to use your sixth sense. Its energy can see beyond the illusion of time and space.
It can see right through you - it will expose all your flaws, shams, corruptions and shame, then it teaches you to heal them.
Labradorite heals relationships; it shows you where there is no substance, just delusion and denial.
It heals the stress and anxiety related to emotional turmoil.
It calms the hormones and is good for the kidneys and all fluid functions of the body.

It soothes the digestion.
It has been used as a gem essence and mediation stone with the Goddess groups.
It is a powerful mesmerising female ally and guide.
Labradorite is here to offer you in-sight, clairvoyance, and truths to the questions of the universe.
It teaches you to exercise your third eye, by letting your intuition guide you daily.
Why don’t you try using labradorite and keeping an intuitive journal?

Affirmation: I am enchanted as my soul illuminates my path through life.

LAPIS LAZULI - Lazurite

Chemical Composition: (Na, Ca)8Al6Si6O24(S,S04)

Crystal System: Isometric Hardness: 5.5

Habit: Dodecahedral crystals have been found, usually massive as a rock (lapis lazuli) forming mineral

Colour: Ultramarine blue, brilliant blue with violet or greenish tints

KEYWORDS: SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Lazurite is a popular but generally expensive mineral.
Well-formed, deep blue crystals are rare and valuable.
It is more commonly found massive and combined with other minerals into a rock called lapis lazuli.
Lapis lazuli, or lapis for short, is mostly lazurite, but commonly contains pyrite and calcite and traces of some other minerals.
The rich blue colour is due to the sulphur that is inherent in the structure of lazurite.
Small crystals of pyrite are always present in lapis and their brassy yellow colour is both attractive and diagnostic
in distinguishing lapis from its also blue cousin - sodalite rock, which lacks pyrite and is much cheaper.
The calcite produces white streaks in the lapis and too much calcite will substantially lower the value of the stone.
The name lazurite is often confused with the bright blue phosphate mineral lazulite.
However, the two minerals cannot be confused with each other identification-wise because of lazulite’s typical vitreous lustre and good crystal habit.
The beautiful blues in paintings from the Renaissance are thanks to the blue of lapis lazuli, the blue rock cherished by the ancients, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece and Rome.
The ancient city of Ur had a thriving trade in lapis as early as the fourth millennium BC.
The name is international, from the Latin, lapis, which means stone, and from the Arabic, azul, which means blue.
When lapis was first introduced to Europe, it was called ultramarinum, which means ‘beyond the sea’.
Ground lapis was the secret ingredient of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century.
The Romans believed that lapis was a powerful aphrodisiac.
In the Middle Ages it was thought to keep the limbs strong and free the soul from error, envy and fear
Lapis is a high intensity etheric blue stone.
It contains the energies of royalty, wisdom, patience, truth, mental attainment, good communication, contentment,
artistic inspiration, deep meditation, spiritual and philosophical contemplation, personal integrity and loyalty.
It is the ‘Spirit of Truth’.
Lapis lazuli will heal an unbalanced throat chakra.
How you tell if the throat chakra is un-balanced by being too open or spinning too fast: the person is over-talkative, dogmatic, self-righteous or arrogant.
If the throat chakra is too closed, or spinning sluggishly, the person is unreliable, holds inconsistent views and holds back from self-expression.

Lapis works on the thyroid, parathyroids, the throat, upper lungs and arms, the base of the skull and body weight.
Lapis teaches you the power of the spoken word.

Because the blue ray governs the throat, infections in this area are psychologically related to ‘talking inwards’, not speaking out.

Psychologically speaking, coughing is because a person has swallowed their thoughts and cannot bring themselves to speak out.
Lapis teaches you to ‘give voice to your truth’.

It counteracts harshness.

If somebody is acting insensitively in a situation, lapis will help them become more compassionate.
Lapis gives relief from pain, both physical and psychological, and combats cruelty and brutality.

Lapis is an interesting stone to meditate with, as its high intensity etheric nature means you really have to reach high to bring your energy into line with its refined vibration.
It contains a higher order of intelligence and wisdom, ‘intellectual integrity’.
Lapis also heals the martyr syndrome: ‘I am going to punish myself in order to make you suffer’.
Lapis aids discrimination of wisdom; it is very penetrating and does not suffer fools gladly, or those who
are fooling around with other people’s spirituality.
Lapis teaches you to reach for the stars and looking at lapis reminds you of a summer night’s sky.
The small crystals of pyrite, which are always present in lapis, and the streaks of white calcite
produce starry pictures, which will aid your intuition.

The white calcite brings in the energies of the crown chakra and the yellow pyrite brings in the energies of the solar plexus chakra to activate, energize, align and integrate the throat chakra.
Lapis teaches you that you have no chance of developing a balanced purified throat chakra until you have successfully worked through and balanced the lower four chakras to obtain the necessary purification to fully activate this centre.
Lapis also teaches the mastery of active listening by integrating the full faculties of hearing.
It is a sad fact that active listening is totally neglected in our society.

We need to fully develop the outer ear, before the subtle inner ear can be available to us for inner guidance.
All too often Divine guidance is not heard, because of not truly listening to the ‘wisdom’ behind the words.
Lapis makes an excellent gemstone essence, which can release a person from emotional bondage and mental suffering.

Affirmation: I allow the spirit of truth to set me free.

LEPIDOLITE - Lithia mica

Chemical Composition: K(Li,Al)3(Al, Si)4 O10(F, OH)2

Crystal System: Monoclinic Hardness: 2.5

Habit: Includes tabular to prismatic crystals with a prominent pinacoid termination. Lepidolite’s four prism faces and
two pinacoid faces form pseudo-hexagonal crystal “books”.

The sides of the crystal often tend to taper.
Also as micaceous, lamellar or granular rock-forming masses

Colour: Violet to pale pink or white and, rarely, grey or yellow

KEYWORD: RELAXATION

Lepidolite is a mica and has just in the past decade become available on the mineral market in great quantities.
Lepidolite means scale stone; it is an ore of lithium and forms in granitic masses that contain a substantial amount of lithium.
Lepidolite, like other micas, has a layered structure of lithium aluminium silicate sheets, weakly bonded together by layers of potassium ions.
Lepidolite crystals accompany such other lithium-bearing minerals as tourmaline, amblygonite and spodumene and can add greatly to the value of these specimens.
Single large plates or books’ of lepidolite can have appealing violet-lilac colour.
Lepidolite can desensitise the nervous system very effectively, thereby numbing pain.
It contains an extremely high vibration and works on the brain’s pain centres, which helps with drug addiction.
It also gives you your own space back, so you can heal, so it is good for convalescence. Lepidolite also clears
anaesthetic: from the system.
It facilitates the energy of no mind, thus relieving stress. It is also used for balancing both sides of the brain.
In meditation it feels like a gentle wave of energy flowing through the mind. Lepidolite is especially good for insomnia.

The ‘Spirit’ keeper or Angel of lepidolite facilitates its use as a ‘dreamtime’ crystal, an astral guide.

It changes our way of consciously viewing the world, by accessing other dimensions and realities.

Lepidolite is a good space clearer; it can emit an immense force field that will keep anything negative at bay.
It has a pushing - pulsing - exploding kind of energy (like popcorn).
It can be used to clear the mind of unwanted debris before meditation, so it aids deep meditation practice.
It can fully activate and integrate the crown chakra, bringing alignment to the higher transpersonal chakras above the head.
Lepidolite’s energy is the positive female aspect of the negative warlike male vibration - Pallas Athena, who sprang fully armed and protected from the head of her father, Zeus.

So lepidolite is beneficial for men who are trying to balance their female polarity and learn to nurture themselves into wholeness.
It stops the head ruling the heart, by bringing about a balanced polarity.
It teaches us to use an integrated approach.
It stops depression, obsessional thinking and confusion.
It alleviates symptoms of sensitivity to pollutants, chronic exhaustion, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
Lepidolite also strengthens the immune system and has great healing powers.
It gives a rest for the troubled heart and brings inner peace and emotional healing.

Affirmation: I recognise the need for silence, relaxation and stillness in my life.

MOLDAVITE - The Grail Stone - Tektite

Chemical Composition: SiO2 + Al,Ca,Fe,K,Na

Crystal System: Amorphous Hardness: 5 - 6

Habit: Usually small nodules or splinters that vary from simple rounded shapes to very intricate beautiful natural carvings.
Many have smooth, scarred or pitted surfaces

Colour: Transparent green

KEYWORD: TRANSFORMATIONAL

Tektites are still poorly understood. They are irregularly - and at times elaborately - shaped nodules and blobs of a glassy substance.
They have no crystal structure and are therefore similar to obsidian, but are not associated with volcanic processes.
Their chemistry is unique and unexplained. The leading theory concerning their origin is the “Meteorite Impact Theory”.
It is postulated that many odd events occur during a meteor’s impact, because of the tremendous heat and pressure produced.
Tektites may be fused glass that formed during an impact of a meteor with layers of rock on the earth’s surface.
Tektites occur in broad bands in specific localities in different parts of the world.
These bands produce characteristically similar tektites and are sometimes loosely associated with meteorite craters or suspected craters.
Could these fields represent splash material from an impact?

Many believe so and this idea is gaining acceptance from many scientists.
The odd and diverse chemistry of the tektites could be a result of unique meteorites hitting unique rock types with the combinations
producing particular effects.
Tektites, which have been found on every continent, are tar black or blackish brown, while moldavites, which have been found only in the

Moldau river valley in Czechoslovakia, are a deep green colour.
The only known fall of moldavites occurred about 15 million years ago.
Humans prized them at least as long as 25,000 years ago, for archaeologists have discovered moldavite shards and pieces in cave dwellings of that era.
Moldavites are the rarest of gems, perhaps rarer than diamonds, rubies or emeralds.
Since their origin is not of the earth, the discovery of new deposits seems unlikely.
Moldavites are sometimes cut as gemstones or put into jewellery as natural uncut pieces to show off their often eerie and exquisite intricate shapes.
Although moldavite has been known of as a gem for thousands of years, it remained in obscurity until recently, the only reference being an article in the Lapidary Journal in 1958 about a strange stone with some kind of mystical properties.
In 1986 the wonderful book ‘Moldavite, Starborn Stone’, by Bob Simmons and Kathy Warner, was published.
It brought the truly transformational stone moldavite to the attention of millions of ‘Light-Workers’ around the Planet.

The 5 keys to moldavite’s transformational properties are its:

Amorphous Nature Inner Structure
Cosmic Birth Growth Conditions
Verdant Green Hue Colour Vibration
Intense Resonance Vibration
‘Spirit’ or Angel Guide Inspiration

Amorphous Nature - Inner Structure

Basically, moldavite has no structure; this means it can take you beyond your self-limiting belief system into uncharted realms of infinite possibilities.
Moldavite contains the essence of shunyata, the vast emptiness (which contains all potentiality), stretching in all directions, absolutely clear, pristine and radiant.
By this clear starry night sky stretching into infinity we can gain an understanding, a feeling for the expansiveness and freedom which could be ours if we did not allow our horizons to become narrow, clouded and limited, if we did not permit our minds to become fixated and hypnotized by cravings and worries centred on what really are empty passing phenomena.

Cosmic Birth - Growth Conditions

Moldavite’s chemistry is unique and unexplained.

The leading theory concerning their origin is the “Meteorite Impact Theory”.
They were born from a meteor’s impact because of the tremendous heat and pressure produced.
This makes the energy of moldavite very fast, hot and cosmic.
They were sent here for the awakened ‘star children’, to help their ascension into the higher realms of cosmic consciousness.
This massive vibrational shift is happening right now, that is why so many people feel a magnetic attraction to the cosmic transformational tool of moldavite.

Verdant Green Hue - Colour Vibration

Green is a balance colour, it is the bridge, a gateway into the heart of the body; the lesson of
love that needs to be learned in order to grow spiritually.

Green will encourage your spiritual growth.
It wants you to take your proper place in life.
Green gives you harmony and balance.
Green does just not follow rules blindly; it creates better ones where the old ones have failed.
Green holds the keys to memory - it can remember that which needs to be remembered.
So it unlocks the deep and hidden that is the cause of our psychological and physical dis-ease.
It is the diagnostic colour. This makes moldavite one of the best diagnostic crystals we have available.
An aversion to moldavite or the colour green often indicates that we do not feel at ease with our emotions.
It shows a deep fear of opening our heart chakra fully to unlimited unconditional love.

Intense Resonance - Vibration

Metaphysically, we have within us the light body and this contains encodements of information like tiles.
When we hold moldavite this data is released.
Very often many people are not consciously aware of the information being unlocked, they just feel what has commonly been called the moldavite flush’, a huge wave of powerful energy which actually flushes through the body.
This can cause sweating or a bright ‘red’ face. Interestingly, red is the green ray’s balance colour.
Others experience the decoding or download as heat surging up their spine.
Still others experience the download as an emotional release of tears or laughter.
Others find the vibrational download shift and the resulting rise in their vibrational rate as too intense; they may become fearful.
Others experience it as dizziness or headaches.
There is no doubt, though; the download does cause massive spiritual growth.
It can take years to fully integrate the download of information.
In fact the more people resist the integration of their
Divine blueprint being decoded from the Akashic records, the longer it takes.

‘Spirit’ or Angel Guide - Inspiration

When we hold, wear, meditate or carry moldavite our energy field changes.
The universal law of resonance says that what we focus on becomes our reality.
Like attracts like.
When we understand that every thought is sent out and attracts like energy which strengthens it, then comes back to us like a boomerang, we begin to grasp how the higher vibration of moldavite
increases our sensitivity and increases our clairaudience and clairvoyance abilities.
We literally attract a higher form of guidance.
Moldavite does have an Oversoul Spirit Guide, which is a vast cosmic Angel.
The moldavite Angel can help in all areas, including connecting you to other high vibrational guides and Ascended Masters.
These Cosmic Masters have been around for aeons and are able to work with anyone whose vibration has been raised sufficiently.
You don’t have to use moldavite, though, to attract Cosmic Masters.
Many people who have refined their vibration through meditation have accessed this guidance.

The ‘Grail Stone’ is another name for moldavite: it is its ‘Spirit’ name.
Legend has it that anyone who touches the ‘Grail Stone’ will have a spiritual transformation.
Those who choose to wear, carry, meditate or heal with moldavite carry the energy of moldavite within their Divine blueprint.
This makes them the ambassadors for transformation;
indeed their energy is raised to such a high vibration of resonance they become the instruments of the enfoldment of the Divine plan for Planet Earth as she and her children make the vibrational shift into the next dimension.

Affirmation: I release all limiting thought patterns: I am transformed.